parsing strings containing variables

[thatiminator]

Hi,

I'm wondering if anyone of you guys knows whether it's possible to do this:

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$s = 'Variable: $v1, should be replaced. $v2';

$v1 = 'some dipshit value';
$v2 = 'cheerio';

$parsed = some_function_or_whatever($s);

print $parsed;

Then the output should be --
Variable: some dipshit value, should be replaced. cheerio

My problem here is that the variables should be defined AFTER the string is defined. So first $s and then $v1 & $v2.

I've juggled a lot with syntaxes and I've tried to find a built-in function but no solutions yet.

Many thanks in advance,
Tim.

[Anon]

This will work:

$parsed = eval('return "' . $s . '";');

just hope that $s doesn't have any double quotes, or it will interfere with the other double quotes...I think you can solve that by using addslashes(), but haven't tested that...I'll leave that to you...

Diego